Afghanistan

In the second of his two-part essay on the relationship between feminism and imperialism, Sebastião Martins argues that Afghani women, far from being the much-vaunted beneficiaries of NATO's occupation of their country, are in fact its main victims.

You probably know that a woman threw a cat in a bin in Coventry this month. You probably don't know that 75 people have been killed in Pakistan by US drones this month. This isn't anything to do with you or your interest in current affairs. As Musab Younis shows in this week's CounterSpin column, the importance of a news story has almost no bearing on the coverage it receives.

The Roma community in and around Marseille is the latest group at the receiving end of the steamroller tactics of the French gendarmerie, who on Friday began to expel thousands said to be living illegally in France. But our own government’s approach to immigration is hardly more progressive. Corin Faife examines the British tradition of how to do your dirty work with a smiling face.